Sphinx : The Ultimate Sphinx Book

Temple, Robert

Eglantyne Books（2026/02発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 482 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781913378158
• DDC分類 932.2

Full Description

What was the Sphinx for, and what is the Sphinx?
The Sphinx's body is not a lion, but another creature.
The head was re-carved, and the Pharaoh's face can
now be identified.

There is a burial chamber inserted beneath the waist of
the Sphinx. 280 years' worth of published accounts of eye
witnesses who saw the chamber, all of them published here
in full, prove its existence. It was sealed with cement in 1926.
The story of the Middle Kingdom pharaoh who uncovered
the Sphinx was still being told by the locals in 1482, as
recorded by a Dutch visitor. This is the longest recorded survival
of folklore in world history, a tale which survived with its essential
facts intact for three thousand years.

The Nile in ancient times lapped near the feet of the Sphinx,
and the Sphinx was like an island surrounded by water
filling 'the Sphinx Pit' where it sits now. The photographic
evidence of sluices for controlling the inflow of the water
are published. The water erosion is fully explained.
Evidence published here proves that the Sphinx is part of a
unified design with the three main pyramids of Giza. It was
'the guardian' of Giza. The three pyramids and the Sphinx
were all conceived as a single complex.
The Sphinx was originally a crouching figure of the dog
god Anubis, traditionally the guardian of the dead in ancient
Egypt.

Every published account of the Sphinx from Roman times
to 1837 is published in the back of the book, most translated
from foreign languages. These were collected over many
years and are now gathered into one place.
The Sphinx was part of a sacred resurrection cult based
upon the rising sun at the equinox.

Contents

Introduction by Olivia Temple....................................................................................1
Introduction by Robert Temple...................................................................................5
1 Sphinx Obsession........................................................................................................10
2 The "Secret Chamber" beneath the Sphinx................................................................68
3 An Amazing Survival..................................................................................................126
4 The Face of the Sphinx...............................................................................................158
5 The Sphinx as Anubis.................................................................................................196
6 Sphinx Island..............................................................................................................237
7 The Sphinx and the Giza Plan.....................................................................................324
8 The Golden Angle of Resurrection..............................................................................381
Accounts of the Sphinx from Roman Times to 1837
Section 1
Accounts of the Sphinx from Roman Times to 1798................................................................444
Section 2
Accounts of the Sphinx from 1800 to 1837..............................................................................493
Appendix One
Excavations of Monsieur Mariette at
the Great Sphinx ......................................................................................................................506
By Auguste Mariette
Translated by Olivia Temple Appendix Two
Concerning the Age of the Sphinx at Giza ...............................................................................509
By Ludwig Borchardt
Translated by Robert Temple and Eleonore Reed
Appendix Three
Sphinx ...................................................................................................................................518
By James Burton (1822)
Appendix Four
A Description of Giambattista Caviglia's Excavation
of the Sphinx............................................................................................................................520
Translated by Stefano Greco
Appendix Five
Scientific Visual Documentation of the Sphinx.........................................................................525
Notes ...................................................................................................................................537
Index ...................................................................................................................................555